Elon Musk Quotes

When you're young, luxury often means being able to buy something you really want - a high end bag or a specific car.

I have a Mercedes. I wear a Rolex watch. I have no problem with the selling of things.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

Living in London and having a lavish lifestyle, it's not that important to me.

When we have the means to pay for what we desire, what we get is not so much what is best, as what is costliest.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

As we get rich, the basics of life - food, clothing and shelter - become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word 'spiritual' not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.

I don't have a Rolls. I don't have a jet. That's not me.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.